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Friday, August 1, 2025
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Topic: wealth

Pandemic could erase more global wealth than financial crisis

Marion Halftermeyer -
Volatile markets and the economic fallout from the virus could wipe out as much as $16 trillion of global wealth this year and hinder growth for the next five years.

Here’s what you need to count among India’s 1%, but it won’t make you rich in US, China

Ben Steverman -
The top 1% covers a wide span, from professionals to billionaires with more wealth than many nations. But the yardstick varies greatly with where you live.

Indian elites holding back wealth tied in slums. And here’s what Modi govt can do

Sonali Ranade -
Elites view encroachers as disruptors of property rights system, and oppose regularisation. But that’s what India needs to free up capital held in slums.

Missing capital: India’s trillions-dollar wealth is chained in slums. Time to unlock it

Sonali Ranade -
The slums and shanties represent a huge drain on our wealth for what really requires nothing more than a clear-headed policy towards urban property.

These new Indian billionaires are racing ahead as the old ones are fading away

P. R. Sanjai -
Number of billionaires in India more than doubled to 119 between 2013 & 2018 & the country will lead global growth in ultrahigh net worth individuals.

Between 2014 & 2019 polls, all parliamentarians got richer but BJP MPs especially so

Vinod Kumar -
If JMM’s Champai Soren managed to double his wealth between 2014 and 2019, BJP’s Arjun Munda quadrupled his riches during the same period.

India needs big, wealthy industries, not more reports pitting poor against rich

Kanchan Gupta -
It is fashionable to be derisive of big industries and industrialists but what is overlooked is that they sustain smaller businesses, generate jobs.

Oxfam inequality study: Skewed parameters to assess wealth or disbalanced economic growth?

ThePrint Team -
In its annual report, Oxfam said that India’s wealthiest got wealthier by 39 per cent as opposed to the bottom half of the population...

Inequality reports like Oxfam’s end up hurting India’s poor with their poor methodology

Ila Patnaik -
Oxfam considers it “obscene” that the poor now borrow more, and have seen an increase in their liabilities.

Funerals are becoming the final opportunity to flaunt wealth

Olivia Carville -
Businessmen and billionaires are often aggressively competitive in life, and funerals become one last extravagant display of wealth. 
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Opinion

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

Swasti Rao -
India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

Free UPI was a revolution. Now costs are piling up, quality is slipping

Linking trade and geopolitics will hurt US more than India

Economy

Trump’s new trade tariff will have an impact not just on India but also South Asia. Here’s how

Debdutta Chakraborty -
India's $86.5 bn in exports to US could be significantly impacted but it is expected to remain a preferred country for manufacturing.

Defence

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

National Interest

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

Shekhar Gupta -
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.

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